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I Tar Heel Writer Signs As Writer-In-Residence Guy Owen, Tar Heel novelist, poet and critic, will join the department of English at ASU fall quarter as writer-in-resi dence. Owen will write during his spare time, teach a non-credit class of creative writing, serve as a general lecturer on cam pus, and advise and encourage student writers. Creator of the Flim-Flam Windy Gap News Items Miss Eda Mae Presnell of Winston-Salem spent the week end with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Roby Presnell. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Vines, Amy and Denna, of Charlotte spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Ray Harmon. Mrs. Dean Hicks has returned home from Watauga Hospital where she has been a patient for several days. Mr. Lewis Harmon, son of Mr. and Mrs. Tedra Harmon returned home from Vietnam last week. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Stedry and children of Chicago, 111. have been visiting Mrs.Stedry's par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Tedra Har mon. They were accompanied back to Chicago by Mrs. Har mon who will remain for several days. Recent visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hagaman were Mr. and Mrs. Noah Farthing, Mr. and Mrs. Dick Farthing and children Gayle, Richard and Lanette, Mr. and Mrs. Jay Wright and Kathy, all of Van couver, Washington, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Hagaman, Teresa, Susan, MaryGayle and Elizabeth Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Over cash of Mooresville and Mrs. Walter Johnson of Boone. Miss Shelia Harmon leftSun day for Banner Elk where she was enrolled at Lees McRae College. WILSON ON ECONOMY London—Prime Minister Harold Wilson has staked his personal prestige on Britain's return to economic health with a cabinet shakeup. His goals are a cut in unemployment, a strong pound, an end to wage restraints and continue efforts to enter the European Common Market. nian, Owen is the culmination •Appalachian's two-year search for a writer-in-resi dence. The idea originated with the Artist and Lecture Series Committee. He was granted a leave of absence from N. C. State University to finish a book. Born February 24,1925, near Clarkton in Baden County, Owen was reared in the Cape Fear River area which he employs as settings for his novels. He entered the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1942 with the pursuit of teachii* and writing as a career. He earned his A.B., M.A., and Ph D. degrees there. His teaching career includes Elon College, Davidson, and seven years at Stetson Univer sity in Florida. Presently, he teaches creative writingatN.C. State University. Owen has displayed his versa tility in the fields of fiction, poetry, criticism, reviewing, and editorship. As a novelist, he is known for Season of Fear (1961), which received favor able comments from Granville Hicks and The New York Herald Tribune. His more famous novel, The Ballad of the Flim Flam Man, has over 300,000 GUY OWEN copies in print. Both works are available in paperback reprint. Set in the Cape Fear country, Hie Flim-Flam Man is Curley IYeadway’s comic tale about lis encounter with Mordecai Jones, the Flim-Flam man,and ^ie series of con operations ind chases in which they are nvolved. The novel “invests iction with the rich resonances rf southern idiom, and its sharp :hrust at Dixie mores may re mind readers of the wit and art Chamber Commerce News Notes wuuc viianiuci V/UHI merce earlier this year spent almost $3,500 for beautiful col ored brochures advertising this area . These brochures were distributed throughout the coun try, especially the East and South and have influenced many people to come and visit us. In addition, the Chamber list ed the businesses in this area so that people living and coming here can easily locate the bus iness or items they may need. These are just two reasons why every business in this area should support the Chamber of Commerce with their member ship. The Mountain Empire Travel Organization will meetat Hound Ears Lodge and Club at 9:30 a.m„ Sept. 20, 1967. The Organization was formed at the Johnson City Country Club July 25. It’s purposes are to ad vertise the assets and advan tages of the Mountain Empire, particularly the territory em braced in 32 counties of N.C., Tenn., Va., & Ky. The aim of the Corporation is to attract tourlsis ana new residents and promote the development of re sources. The proposed area encom passed by Mountain Empire will be within a 75-mile radius of Tri-City Airport (JohnsonCity, Bristol & Kingsport), including counties and cities touching within the accepted radius. We welcome our Chamber erf Commerce members of the week, Phil Templeton, Box 98, Boone, and M.E. Thalheimer, Box 535, Boone. X-RAY DANGER Karl Z. Morgan, director of the Oak Ridge National Labora tory's Health Physics Division testified before the Senate Commerce Committee hearings that between 3,000 and 30,000 deaths a year resulted from radiation damage from diag nostic medical exposure. Insurance costs expected to rise after riots. WATAUGA COUNTY LIVESTOCK MARKET, INC. HIGHWAY 421 EAST — BOONE, NORTH CAROLINA Phone 264-9413 Night Phone 267-2695 Thanks For Attending Our Sale PRICES PAID AT SEPT. 8 SALE VEALS CHOICE ....$37.00-$40 00 GOOD . $33.00-$37.00 MEDIUM ...-.$27.00-133.00 COMMON .....$22.00427.00 HEIFERS CHOICE .$22.00423.25 GOOD . $21.00422.00 MEDIUM .....$18.00421.00 STOCKERS STEERS - WEIGHING 400 lbs. to 600 lbs. CHOICE .....$26.00428.75 GOOD .$24.00426.00 MEDIUM ...$21 00423.00 STEERS WEIGHING 850 to 1150 lbs. CHOICE ...$23 00-$23 75 GOOD ........$22.00423.00 MEDIUM .. $21.00422.00 COWS GOOD ........$15.00417 80 CULLS... $12.00415.75 BULLS HEAVY ..._.......$21.50423.10 LIGHT ........$18.00422.50 Regular Sale Fri., Sept. 15 This it the newest, largest and most modern livestock barn in the area. We can handle up to two thousand head at one time. of Mark Twain.” The movie version, adapted by William Rose, is being film ed in the Lawrenceburg, Ken tucky area. Directing the movie, Irvin Kershner cast George C. Scott as Mordecai Jones, “The slickest-talking, fastest-mov ing Bible toting, pointy-eared rogue in modern fiction,” and Michael Sarrazin as Curley Treadway, the soldier gone AWOL from the Army. Bill Morrison of The Raleigh News and Observer wrote of the movie: “It does your book just ice, conveying the flavor, the warmth but most important the truth that makes it a valid artistic statement.” As a poet, Owen has pub lished over 60 poems in tin past decide, appearing in an thologies and such magazinei and papers as Saturday Review Poetry, College English, Eng lish Journal, New York Timei and New York Herald Tribune as well as in “little maga zines’*-pVoice, Epos, Southen Poetry Review, and 20 others in the U. S. and abroad. Hii collected poems werepublishet in Cape Fear County and Othei Poems (1958) and a small chap book entitled The Guilty an< Other Poems (1962). Owen the critic has com mented on Conrad’s Heart o Darkness, “Lagoon,” Open Bo* and Youth, on Fitzgerald’s Th Great Gfctsby, on John Crow Ransom’s style, and general! on Southern and Americar poetry. As an editor, he has founded and edited Impetus and Southern Poetry Review, two semi-annual journals of poetry. Co-editor of Southern Poetry Today and Essays in Modern American Literature, he also is contri buting editor to Books Abroad. For his outstanding work Owen has received the Bread Loaf Scholarship in 1960, the Henry Bellaman Foundation Lit I erary Award, and the Yaddo Fellowship in the summer of 1966. The movie version of The * Flim-Flam Man will be released ! by 20th Century Fox in August. Efforts are being made to show ' it at the local theatre while Owen is in Boone. We've Moved Now Renting HONDA SCRAMBLER CL90 4 RENT A HONDA QUIET — DEPENDABLE — ELECTRIC STARTING It’s Easy — It’s Fun — It’i Exciting! Free Lessons & Free Gas With Each Rental Hourly Or Dally Rates ALL YOU NEED IS A DRIVER’S LICENSE At The BOONE PURE OIL STATION 313 Blowing Rock Road Open Dally 9 A. M. Till 11 P. M. Buy Your Color TV From Lowes Big 2, RCA or GE vareer rne coiorrui new television season with a set that can bring you all the "color full fall programs now premiering on all major networks! 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